Re: Kernelspace firmware loaders (was: linux-next: manual merge ofthe staging tree with the v4l-dvb tree)

[Olivier Galibert]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 11:30:59PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Now, if a vendor provided a firmware in the form of a Java bytecode file, 
> requiring the kernel driver to implement a JVM to load the firmware into the 
> device, would you accept it ?

You extract the data in userspace, turn it into something passive in a
format you define, and implement the actual loader in C in the kernel.
It would not be the first or last time the actual data is extracted
from a vendor-provided package.

  OG.
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